Hiram sloop



i l @uiten tutre @anni @frn HIRAM SLOOP, OF MOUNT HEALTHY, ASSIGNOR TOHIMSELF AND JEPTHA GARRARD, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

Letters .Patent No. 73,933, dated January 28, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN HILL-SIDE PLOUGES.

T0 WHOM IT MAY OONOERN:

A Be it known that I, HIRAM SLOOP, of Mount Healthy, Hamilton county,Ohio, have invented a. certain new and useful Hill-Side Plough; and dhereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof,'reference being had to the accompanying drawing, making part ofthis speelcation.

My inventionV relates to the class of'hilhside ploughs which :1rosusceptible of: adjustment for alternate right und left-hand ploughingin succession, and is so arranged that the reversal is effected bythesimple act of swinging the beam without disturbing the plough in thofurrow.

#Fgure 1 s a perspective View of my plough, in. position for right-hundploughing, except that the beam is unlocked.

Figure 2 is a side elevation, showing the benin in position forleft-hand ploughing, and rmly locked to the plough proper. v

Figure 3 is a top view thereof, thc beam being released and partly swungaround.

In the above ligure portions of the stock are removed, so ns to exposethe working parts.

My plough proper consists of two ordinary bnr-shares, A A, right andleft respectively, united back to L back, so as to have their lend-sidesflush with each other, and their points cliametrically from each other.A fishiplate, B, unites the two land-side bars to each otherend to alend-side plate, O, and another heh-plate, D, attaches together the twomould-boards. Extending upward from the ploughs proper are two sheths, EE', made fast toa D-formed swivel-plate, F, connected to the under sideof the beam by :t strong king-bolt, G, which bolt also secures the roarend of :t strap or bar, II, which, forming o. loop, 71., around thecurved portion of the D, is

t attached to the under side ofthe beaunin front of it, and constitutesa shoulder or abutment against which the sheths alternately press, andhy which, in' connection with :z pair of dogs, I J, suitably notched,z'j, serves to holdthe sheths 'in either position. The seid dogs arepivotefl to the beain at K K', and have their summits conl neoted byrods L L with a Tlformcd lever, M, accessible to theA operator, andadapted to be secured in the locked position by a rack, N. I

The operotion is as follows: The plough having reached the end of thefurrow, from the rack N and pushed to the right, so as to release thedogs I J'. The beam is then swung halt' around and locked in its reverseposition, and the team started forward on its return trip or through,without disturbing the plough proper, except to guide it into the lendin the common way. i

I claim herein as new, and of my invention- A reversible hillsideplough, characterized by two ploughs proper, secured back to back, andprovided with a. beam capable of being swung and locked indiztmetricztlly opposite directions, dogs I J, abutment-hsv H, sheths EE', lever M, and rack N, or their equivalents.

` In testimony df which invention, I hereunto set my hand.

the lever M is discharged HIRAM SLOOP.

l Witnesses:

Gno. H. KNIGHT, JAMES H. LAYMAN.

